Let's give thanks Spin Cycle style

Here we are time once again to give thanks. Jen over at Sprite’s Keeper asked us what we are most thankful for this week’s Spin Cycle. So here’s my top ten (man I love lists…so here we go…):

10. Technology: Seriously I do not know what I would do without my cell phone, internet connection, and digital camera. What did people do before all this technology?

9. My car: I am so thankful for my car (are the gods listening??). My car has 172,355 miles on it! Please, please, please do not fail me now. I can not afford another one. I drive about 30,000 miles a year, so every day I wonder how much life my little Sebring has left, and I frantically hope that it’s at least 2 more years (please stop laughing at me and instead cross your fingers for me and send up a prayer—the car gods will hear you).

8. Lower gas prices: I’m pretty sure almost everyone on the planet agrees with this one. A quarter of my pay should not go for gas to get me to work.

7. Holidays combined with Vacation time: I have 5 days off in a row!! And at Christmas I’ll have 10 days off! I love this time of year.

6. Unexpected generosity: I put together a Toys for Tots fundraiser at work. With the economy the way it is I wasn’t expecting a fantasic turn out, hopefully a couple hundred. We made $950.00 in four days! It’s a great feeling knowing that it was a success.

5. The blogosphere: I am totally addicted to all of you bloggers. It takes all of my will power to not quit my job to stay home and blog 24/7. You guys are so awesome!

4. A healthy family: I am so thankful that everyone close to me is healthy (at least physically—the jury is still out on my families mental health…).

3. Great Child Care: I am lucky enough that my FIL watches my daughter while my husband and I are at work. It’s so comforting knowing that she’s not with strangers all day, she’s with someone who loves her and it makes a big difference.

2. My husband: My husband is wonderful! He is very intelligent and very capable of doing all the manly things that need to be done around the house. He fixes my car (see #9), he’s the reason my car has made it to 172,355 miles. I often find myself saying “What did I do to deserve this”... um..yeah…ALWAYS in a good way (eye roll….you know the one hunny). No seriously, I love my husband and I am so thankful to have him.

And the number 1 reason I am thankful this holiday season is…

1. My daughter: I wonder if my daughter will ever realize that she holds my heart in those soft little hands, or that I’m addicted to those cute little naked feet with those tiny, tiny little toes sticking out from under her blanket at night because she absolutely has to rip her socks off before she falls asleep. Will she ever know that my heart melts with every softly spoken “mama”, that I could look at her for hours just because I am in constant amazement at how lucky I am that she’s ours, or that I watch her every night as she sleeps and that I run my hand over her beautiful blonde hair before I go to sleep and before I leave her in the morning to go to work? My world is a brighter place because I have my very own angel and I am thankful every minute to have her.

What are you most thankful for?? Leave your comments…I’m thankful for those too!

Oooops, I almost forgot, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Screw it...

I've been kinda discouraged lately. My husband's not thrilled with the whole blogging thing. So I thought about just giving up on the whole thing. And then I came to my senses and thought screw it. I love reading everyones blogs, and I love writing on mine....so I'm gonna keep doing it! It's kinda like a drug I'm addicted. But right now I'm tired and it's snowin like crazy (which means I have to get up earlier than 4:30) so I gotta go to bed...catch all you peeps later....Hang in there for me I'm gonna try to start posting more regularly!

Home Sweet UNINHABITABLE Home

I'm moving!! To the other side of my in-laws house...This is where I'm having issues, I should be moving into my own house...not into another part of theirs.

A few weeks ago my FIL ambushed me since I have Fridays off and my husbands at work. He had me come up stairs(there's the in-laws bedroom, my husbands old bedroom, and a larger outer room where the stairs come up.) And he proceeds to tell me "The Plan" that they came up with....My MIL, FIL, and apparently my husband..because "they talk about this a couple of weeks ago"....thanks for including me. So any way the plan is to move my husband, Cutie Pie, and me into the upstairs where they are, and then they will move to where we are now.

The move would give us alot more room, and Cutie Pie her own room. So you may be asking what the hell my problem is?? I want to move into MY house....not get more comfortable in theirs.

My husband pretty much left his room the day we got married 4 years aga and hasn't touched it since.....It's horrible, we checked it out last week...to let you know how bad it is I found a bottle of beer (yes a full bottle of beer) sitting on his dresser. It said it would be best to drink it before May.....of 1999. I started dating my husband in August of 1999. The beer is older than our relationship. Does this kinda let you know how awful cleaning this room is going to be?

So I deceided that since this wasn't my idea, I'd just keep my mouth shut and let them do the planning and cleaning on the big move. So last night his mom tell me that we need to get a "schedule" made so we can get this done before Thanksgiving.....(now mind you once his mother starts on something, she doesn't shut up, kind of like a little yippy dog.) So I just kinda shut down cuz the whole thing just makes me feel horribly sad. I feel like I'm never going to get out of this freaking house, like I'm never going to get rid of these shadow that have to know every move we're making, and that feel the urge to redo my laundry and rearrange my daughters closet.

I know I should just move into the bigger spacwe and be happy with it but I just can't shake this urge to start crying.

So below is my house, effing money pit. The first picture is a picture of a picture (confused yet) of the house before we did anything to the outside. The second picture is of the house after we took off the enclosed front porch (I think it looke much better without it) and put on new siding and new windows. The inside changes have been even more dramatic, I'll have to get some pictures of that for you. (all the before pictures are regular pictures not digital, so I'll have to scan them or just take a picture that worked pretty well.)

Oh PS: See the drive wayt that the pictures are take from??? Yep it's the in-laws drive way. I am NEVER going to get away from these people. Even if we ever get into our house we'll have to see them every day because we have the farm to take care of on their property, so we'll have to feed the animals every day....sigh...

PPS: We are going to redo that awful metal roof.

Thank God!!! Spin Cycle

Jen at Sprite's Keeper was brave and asked us to do a spin on election day.

I am so frickin glad that it's all over! I am so sick of Fox News I can't even stand it. That's all my father in law watches. I've been way over it for months now.

There are two tvs that we watch in our house. My father in law will turn on both tvs in two different rooms to Fox News.....We are all Fox News all the time. Let me tell ya, I care about our country and who gets elected....but I can not watch non stop news.

Well that just about sums up my little spin.... Ok let me be honest...it's late and I'm tired and lazy...and a little pissy because of some in-law stuff, which I'll let you in on tomorrow during Cutie Pie's nap time...but ya, anyway sorry about the short post. I promise I'll dobetter for the next spin...

WTF Thursday...

I've been crazy busy lately so I haven't had a whole lot of time to check all my favorite blogs...sorry guys... I miss you! But any way, the reason we're here WTF Tursday! (Sorry I missed last week).

1.) People who talk in the bathroom...worse, people who talk on their cell phones while they're going to the bathroom....in a public rest room. WTF?

2.) People who talk with thei mouth full....come on guys it's just really gross!! WTF??

3.) Issue 6 was voted down! Damn it people I wanted a casino in Ohio! Now, no casino....WTF?

4.) My car over heated on the way to work last week....stuck on the side of the raod for 2 hours...WTF! (Luckily my husband saved me and it was an easy fix).

5.) I never have enough time for anything fun....Where does all my time go??WTF??

Not my best WTF Five....so I need your help give me you WTFs for this week

Happy Halloween....

This week's Spin is on Halloween...

I don't really remember much about our Halloweens growing up, just bits and pieces. So I'm pretty sure that this is going to be the best Halloween....like ever... Are you asking why? I'm not really sure....I think a witch put a spell on me...

Everything's better with LilWitch so this will definitely be the best Halloween. We go Trick 0r Treating tonite! My spin is short this week, but I have a sleeping baby and laundry to do so from me and LilWitch.....Happy Halloween!!

Thanks for the e-bitch slaps...

OK, so the first week of Club Half as Small as You was kind of rough. I could have done better…much better. But I didn’t do too bad. There were no Famous Amos Cookies or king-sized Snickers. And thanks to all of my fellow HASAY club members for the e-bitch slaps (they apparently have something against forks….which is fine because all the good stuff like ice-cream and pudding needs to be eaten with a spoon!!) So because of those e-bitch slap I’ve hired a personal trainer.

She’s been in the business for about 15 and a half months. And let me tell you she is TOUGH! Her take on exercise is a little …um..unique. This was our regimen for this weekend:

1.) Instead of Push-ups my trainer prefers Pull-ups (well, they’re actually Pampers Cruisers in size 4, but that’s just being technical). We do 8-10 reps every. single. day. And sometimes in the middle of the night. Let me tell ya they can get pretty dirty.

2.) My trainer is a huge fan of running. This weekend we did endless laps with increasing speed to build endurance. This is kinda how it went: living room-dining room-kitchen—kitch-dining-living—liv-din-kit—k-d-l----and faster and faster until all I saw was a blur. My personal trainer is short, but man is she fast!!!

3.) My personal trainer also realizes that physical endurance is not the only thing that needs a workout…balance is key. She also works with emotional endurance. She call this exercise Titanium Tantrums. This is how it works: If I so much as look at her-she cries, if I leave the room-she cries, if I pick her up-she cries, if I set her down-she cries…you get the picture. She’s very good at this one; we worked on it for HOURS this weekend.

4.) We also worked on strengthening my arm muscles. For this one I carry around a 26 pound weight every where I go. I can switch from arm to arm and sometimes both if I carry the weight in the middle. This one gets especially tiring since it’s a special weight that can move and shift at will.

5.) Hugs-Kisses-Bites: This little exercise is for the brain. My little personal trainer randomly switches between hugs, kisses, and bites, keeping my brain ever alert for the searing pain that maybe mixed in with the sweetest little hugs and kisses.

6.) I almost forgot the best one: The tunny-bouncer. For this one my personal trainer sits on my stomach and bounces up and down. I think she's fond of the uhhhg sound each time she bounces. This is not only good for the stomach muscles, but also for bladder control!!

So there you have it, my personal trainer’s unorthodox methods. While her methods do sound a little screwy they are working. I lost 3 pounds last week! I’m not going to lie to you it was hard…and I did wonder once or twice about hiring such a brutal trainer. But to tell you the truth, I can’t fire her….she scares me.

So to all my fellow club members: keep up the e-bitch slappin…it’s working. Good luck with your quest for the skinny….and oh yeah, pray for me I think she might kill me!!